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Were widely blamed for that shutdown. of course you remember ted cruz and some others held up the government spending measure over concerns over obamacare even though they were blamed for that shutdown, of course, they won the senate in 2014. so you have to think that some democrats tonight are thinking about the way that played out and what it might mean for them. is this a risk politically that could pay off for them or at least not be damaging for them in an election year. it's very interesting. >> i want to bring in brian fallon now. brian, should the dems take this proposed three-week dea...

Idea that when one side over the last however many years has been playing by the marquis of queensbury rules, the other side has been playing by ultimate fighting rules, that's the democrats and republicans, you're not going to be able to sit down at a table and hash out the fine deal points until both sides have a little bit of fear of the other side. even though democrats are risking some things for november by going this way, what they probably have decided here to do is say look, let's let manchin, donley, vote for cloture, and everyone else is saying, let's hold out. >> i want to bring in...

American people that if the government does indeed shut doufdon down, that he has it, it will be fine. they will get their paychecks. it won't affect the military. they're going to work something out with daca. this might be the final moments and congress may be ineffectual in his sight, but he is the leader, the commander in chief. he's there to make the american people feel good. this will be okay. you can all go to bed and go about your business. i've got it. i'm the big guy. that's usually what presidents do. why not this president? that's been the expectation of every single president bef...

Leadership? you heard jeff zeleny say that the lights are turned off at the white house, and we're 58 minutes -- or 49 minutes away from a shutdown. there's not going to be any word from the president tonight? he's not going to speak to the nation to explain, even to frame it in his terms about why the government is shutting down? this is a complete abandonment by the president, who said he was the master deal maker. >> he's going to mar-a-lago tomorrow to host an event. >> do we have jeff zeleny? >> with $100,000 per couple. maybe that will work in our favor because he wants to get down there...

And talked about it at length. he can go in and fire him any time he wants. he can fire the current fbi director tomorrow, if he wanted to. there's absolutely nothing -- >> that would be interesting. >> there's nothing wrong with that. they serve at the discretion of the president of the united states. >> i want to bring in brian fallin here, you works at the justice department, how do you see it. >> let me go back and correct something jason said. he speculated that jeff sessions was bowing to pressure from his outside liberal critics by recusing himself. that's none sense. there's a formal -...